An Enterprise Products Partners pipeline carrying natural gas liquids leaked approximately 140,000 gallons of fuel into an Iowa section of the Missouri River on Saturday, according to a Reuters report. Enterprise spokesman Rick Rainey said controllers detected a drop in pressure in the pipeline between Nebraska and Iowa early Saturday morning and immediately shut it […]

The numbers are out from Nebraska, and the state’s propane prices were the lowest in the Midwest last week. The average retail price for a gallon went up two cents to $1.68, according to the latest report from the Nebraska Energy Office (NEO). That price edges out Iowa, where residents paid $1.71 a gallon to […]

Gasoline prices have been on a tear, but all you propane-powered car owners are still filling up your tanks on the cheap. Last week, the average price for a gallon of gasoline was $2.96, the Energy Information Administration says. For a gallon of propane it was $2.60. Then factor in a 50-cent a gallon federal […]

Memo to the cash-strapped school boards across the country: consider the propane-powered school bus. At the end of November, a school district in Northern Iowa announced its plans to lease six propane buses as a cost-cutting alternative to the standard field-trip carrier, the diesel bus. Mark Egli, superintendant for schools in Manson, Iowa, told the […]